Gabrielle Hamilton: "Our kitchen table was a big round piece of butcher block.." [Blood, Bones & Butter] Food Books dld.bz/QjsJ

Neurologist Oliver Sacks has had to learn to adapt to a world that appears to be entirely flat. [NPRFreshAir Books] dld.bz/JgwB

Barack Obama: "... the white man who had tried to purchase my father's forgiveness." [Dreams from My Father] dld.bz/N3KY

Mike Huckabee: "..ask me as a taxpayer to support it or to endorse it, then it becomes.." [A Simple Government] Books dld.bz/PBaT

Joshua Foer: "Usually prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity.." [Moonwalking with Einstein] Science Books dld.bz/PMKK

Geoffrey Nunberg: The n-word seems to be all over the place again. [The Way We Talk Now] NPR NYT BBC nigger dld.bz/JgwB

"..these subs are cruising the waters of the Persian Gulf or the Red Sea.." [How the End Begins] Nuclear War Books dld.bz/QfaC

Laura Ingraham: "... conclusions about Obama, his intimates, and their designs." [The Obama Diaries] Books dld.bz/RVp4

Krugman explained that adopting the Euro does have obvious benefits. [NPRFreshAir Books] dld.bz/JgwB Europe Economics

Naomi Klein: "#Friedman first learned how to exploit a large-scale shock in the mid 70s." [The Shock Doctrine] Books dld.bz/PsPb